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Tiger Woods, Meet Mr. Oak.
Tiger Woods had an accident November 27th. Tree was unharmed, however. From the AP: The Orlando Sentinel reported that an orange and white barricade sat on top of a hole in front of Woods’ home. About 10 feet away, there was a tire track near an oak tree in his neighbor’s yard. The tree had a few scuff marks but was largely unscathed. Woods also hit a fire hydrant at the same time (2 AM on his driveway), although no report yet on whether water issued forth. Tiger Woods was taken to the hospital and released.
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Want to take good pictures?
If you like the photos you see on this blog, most were by me, with my little Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1K 5MP Compact Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) that I fell in love with! Even though it’s not the blue color I wanted! What’s not to like about the long lens, shooting styles, nice sharp focus… I still love it. Not that I wouldn’t also love an SLR digital Nikon for Christmas, but, you know? Much to be grateful for. I went to Fry’s a month or so ago to look at new cameras, and the guy there said I still had one of the best, 2…
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Maybe the Los Angeles Times just doesn’t like Mexicans.
Who says you can’t teach an old dog grey lady new tricks? I’m talking, of course, about the LA Times (which they call the Old Grey Lady.) Liberal bastion. Friend of the homeless. Empathizer of the poor. Yet they have changed their attitude, at least towards one poor group – our gangs. The Times has stopped giving them tongue-baths, and given them a slap on the backside! Watch. You all know me as the green, mean, Park activist machine, but did you also know how fond I am of the Avenues gang? I bet not! I wrote about the Avenidas, as they say, twice last year, both times in response…
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Too many big animals died in the Angeles Station Fire.
I was very sad about the 2nd column I wrote for the LA Weekly about animals killed in the horrific Angeles Station Fire. (I mean, the topic: the column itself came out fine.) The L.A. Times wrote that a huge number of big animals had died in the fire. I was going to call about this anyway, but the Weekly gave me the excuse I needed. I spoke with Kevin Cooper, a biologist with the US Forest Service, who was also mentioned in the Times article, briefly. Since my first post in my Griffith Park blog, a Google keyword phrase that people have been using to find my Griffith Park-oriented…
